"More than half of Americans visited a library in the past year with many of them drawn in by the computers rather than the books, according to a survey released on Sunday…. the biggest users were… in the tech-loving group known as Generation Y."

"The sudden influx of Chinese and Indian technologies represents the "browning" of African technology, which has long been the domain of "white" Americans and Europeans who want to apply their saving hand to African problems."

"A new survey is out that is bound to add to the angst that some Indians feel about China. A British ranking of the world’s top 200 universities is now out – and there are no Indian schools on the list. Meanwhile, there are six universities from China

"Benton Foundation, at the request of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, published Buildings, books, and bytes in November 1996. The report reveals what library leaders and the public have to say about the future of libraries in the digital age."